AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10442, 6 October 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPSOJt-PAYNE PICTURES.

A good house greeted the change of pictures at the Foresters' Ball •last evening, when an excellent series of dramas, comedies, scenics, etc. were shown, the latest productions of the best English, American and Continental studies. The American Biograph Company whs represented by two of their latest successes. One firm is entitled "Fighting Blood," an Indian story told with a vivid realism that cannot fail to impiess the onlooker with its splendid representations and absorbing situations. The other film is a comedy entitled "How She Triumphed. ' it is full of side-splitting scenes. The Kalem Company is well to the fore with an exciting Western drama capable of rousing the audience into a fever of excitement. It is entitled "The Insurrecto," "-Vanity and its Cure," by the Lubin studio, is full of detail of society home life,, with many pathetic heart-touching passages. '.'The Leading Lady," a comedy by Vitagraph, must carry all before A natural history study, together with the educational -. and scenic gems, and several other laughter raisers, build up a programme seldom seen at one night's entertain-; ment. .

ROYAL COMIC OPERA COMPANY OUR MISS GIBBS.

The box plan for "Our Miss Gibfes" will be.opened at Miss Rive's this morning. ,No musical play or comic opera of recent years has succeeded in achieving the extraordinary popularity that has been accorded to the. mlusical comedy entitled, "Our Miss- Gibibs," to hj& presented here by Mr J. C. Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company on Tuesday next. Australia went into a comparative frenzy over the play, and Miss Blanche Browne, who appears as Mary Gibibs. There must be something extra magnetic in. a piece that can succeed in filling the two theaters in .which it was presented in Australia over 12 months ago. The secret would appear to lay mainly in the fact of the all-round excellence of the performance, the charm of Miss Blanche Browne, and the unusual 'brilliancy of the play itself. "Our Misis Gibibs" is to be done here in the some manner exactly as in Australia, the being identically the same, and tlie scenery and effects a replica of the big Sydney and Melbourne productions. Numerically it isi said to be the largest organisation : that s has previously toured the Dominion with Comic Operay j and v to the .management. 'Besides Miss Blanche Browne, another eminent English artist will make a first appearance here in the Musical Mascotte—3/£r Bertie Wright, principal, comedian from the Gaiety Theatre London, who will appear as "Timothy Giibibsi," a humorous Yorkshire man with exaggerated musical tendencies. The music is by Ivan Oaryll and Lionel Monckton, which should be sufficient guarantee as to its tunefiulnosk and charm of character. It is claimed that the gowning in, "Our Miss Gibibs."; is of an exceptionally gorgeous nature, the costumes in, most cases having been made at several of the leading houses in Paris. It is certain, that ,no other musical play has. been so ; expectantly awaited, and it is safe to say none so freely heralded as "Our; Misis Gibbs." A great attendance is a foregone conclusion.'